This week's Gamer Chat comes courtesy of our intern and tea-maker extraordinaire, Matt McCrory:
While we don’t make mainstream fighting games here at Square Enix we haven’t been able to ignore the huge new beat-em up titles on the market. In the last two weeks we’ve seen the release of Tekken Tag Team Tournament 2 and Dead or Alive 5, both boasting great tag team action.
We didn’t want to feel too left out so here amongst ourselves we’ve been thinking about how our favourite Square Enix characters would fare in a fight and coming up with our own fantasy tag team pairings. Just imagine, Lara Croft and Sora taking on Mog and Wei Shen in fight, that's certainly something you wouldn't forget!
So we want to know, who would be in your ultimate Square Enix tag team? To keep things interesting make sure to pick characters from different franchises. Why do you think these characters would work, and fight, well together? Who would their perfect tag team opponents be?
Let us know who your ultimate battlers would be in the comments below and remember, just because we’re talking about fighting games doesn’t mean we can’t play nice so easy on the trash talk.
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Caius and Sephiroth!!! They are trully very powerfull both of them.
Their tag move will be Ultima Meteor!!!!!
Their opponents: Cloud and Lightning
Tag move: Army of one omnislash ver. 18
combined move: Shutdown (Neku uses scans to pinpoint the thoughts of his opposition, letting both him and Riku know the next move of the opposition in time to counter-move against it)
why these two?: Because I have already seen these two together in KH3D:DDD and I thought they seemed to both have common sense, and enough knowladge to know how to get things done.
Riku is fast and Neku is agressive, so together they could outwit their opponents!)
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Team [Lightning strikes]: Cloud (FFVII) & Lightning (FFXIII-2)
combined move: Intent strike (Lightning and Cloud blitz everything after dazing the opposition with fast movements)
why these two?: They are both ex-soldiers, so they will both have equal knowledge about such things.
They are willing to co-operate and are both tactical fighters! Also I think that they have about the same amount of skill, and HP as each other. They are also both fast, agile and if need be insanely strong when aggravated. The perfect team!
Tag Team Move: Bullet Throw - Hitman throws Mog at the speed of a bullet leaving a gun.
They would work well together because Hitman would find Mog annoying, but helpful at the same time, so would have no problem throwing him at the speed of a bullet! Mog also flies and is fast and can attack long range, whereas Hitman can do both!
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Lara Croft & Frog (Crono Trigger)
Tag Team Move: Jump & Shoot - Frog jumps around distracting the other team, while Lara sneaks up behind them and shoot them.
They would work well together since Frog is fast and will be able to distract both Hitman and Mog whilst Lara shoots and Frog will stab away!
Yeah, creativity is not my strong point! XD
Reason: Because they are an odd pair. I couldn't imagine them together. Lol.. But, if I were to give an explanation, well, Zack, is a heavy fighter so Adam can sort of cover him. Both have fairly high defense with Adam having a more speedy fight. In this finishing, Zack will conjure up a tornado with his materia combining Adam's typhoon ammo, and in confusion, Adam shall go invisible to take the opponents down before Zack finish them with his heavy 9999 apocalyptic strike!
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Kefka and Romeo Guildenstern: Havoc Sinner judgement Blast!!
Reason: Both insane with the latter sort of immortal. Both have final form and they are tricky to beat as Kefka has got the speed and has lethal magical abilities. Their finishing blow is devastating because of their immense god like power.
I would say this fight would be quite challenging to me since Kefka has got the speed and he generally has many magical power. As for Romeo, they have to strip him of the key. But I would not say Zack and Adam team have no chance since they can win or in this case I would imagine that they can halved Romeo's dark power attack if they can build up their determination meter. Adam will be weaker in this matter though given he is not as cheerful as Zack. And I would imagine that both Zack and Adam has to time it perfectly to execute the ultimate combo. They only have one chance in defeating the Kefka and Romeo tag team whence they caught the duo off guard,while making sure Zack is not cursed by Kefka at that time.
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Deviljho and Alatreon, Tag Move: Rapeocalypse
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Cid & Cloude Kenny tag move: interstellar highwind